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Asis Sethi, one of Playback‘s 10 to Watch in 2020, is set to film Rock The Cradle.
Playback Staff
Source - playback.ca
November 12, 2021
Asis Sethi, one of Playback‘s 10 to Watch in 2020, is set to film Rock The Cradle.
Funded by the Canada Council For the Arts, the short on postpartum depression, co-written with Armin Sethi, is shooting in Toronto and Brampton, ON this weekend (Nov. 13 and 14) under Sethi’s Fly Away Films banner. Daniel Everitt-Lock (A Bloody Mess) is director of photography, with Daisy Kaur and Rabiya Mansoor handling production.
“We realized that there are women who are so deep in the throes of postpartum depression and nobody around them realizes. The story became more and more important to us,” says Asis about her desire to make the film.
Sethi’s first narrative short, A Bloody Mess, delved into the taboo subject of menstruation. She recently directed music videos for music artist Parichay and a TD Aeroplan Visa commercial, but is back to making films that focus on social issues, those that affect women and Canadian minorities.
